wisenheimern.

1904 R. L. McCardell Show Girl & Friends 51 He wants to know some good way to reduce his weight... You don't know any such a way? No? Why, I thought you was a wiseheimer.

1919 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. v. 151 Several years ago -heimer had a great vogue in slang, and was rapidly done to death. But wiseheimer remains in colloquial use as a facetious synonym for smart-aleck, and after awhile it may gradually acquire dignity.

1919 National Police Gaz. (U.S.) 4 Jan. 3/1 Cawkins..like a true Wisenheimer, considered the gentle, goosey kind of a beautiful girl the most appetizing.

1922 S. Lewis Babbitt xxiv. 287 The wisenheimers grab a look at a fellow's nails when they want to tell if he's a tinhorn or a real gent!

1937 Amer. Speech 12 9/2 Some wiseheimer American newspaper man has picked this up and tagged it onto President Hoover.

1957 J. D. Salinger Franny & Zooey (1964) 65 We were nervous..at the statistics on child pedants and academic weisenheimers who grow up into faculty-recreation-room savants.

1959 Washington Post 26 Dec. a19/2 Then some wisenheimer from the agency decided we needed a trailer.

1975 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Feb. 185/1 The wisenheimer who gets his ornate come-uppance.

1977 M. Babson Murder, murder, Little Star vii. 50 I shoulda listened to her. But..I was too wisenheimer.